Heat load profiles of new residential developments in rural, sub-urban, and urban context
were generated by means of a generic model and dynamic simulations. The combined effect …

There is great potential to build new energy-efficient building blocks in combination with
efficient energy supply systems. Such a development will contribute to achieve national …

The concept of implementing energy savings to reduce greenhouse gas emissions has
become a key element of energy policies of any industrialized country. In the civil sector and …

Urban energy consumptions growth has become an urgent topic that requires solutions for
significantly reduce carbon emission in the next decades. This paper aims in exploring the …

This study aims towards an improved estimation of annual heat demand of the building stock
for an entire region. This requires the holistic representation of aspects influencing the heat …

Changed weather conditions (increased outdoor air temperatures and solar radiation levels)
caused by the climate change could decrease building heat demand in the future …

Extensive research works have been carried out over the past few decades in the
development of simulation tools to predict the thermal performance of buildings. These …

A city-scale hourly heat demand model for district heating (DH) is proposed by combining a
physical and data-driven approach. The physical heat demand model is based on lumped …

Abstract Urban Building Energy Models are powerful tools for estimating future states of
energy consumption and energy generation in buildings. Due to the complexity of these …

In absence of real data on occupants and electric devices patterns, nominal values and
schedules of internal heat loads given by existing related standards can be adopted for …